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Viruses are the typically the most abundant microbes found in the environmental samples. What positive roles might the microbes play?
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Viruses are the typically the most abundant microbes found in the environmental samples. What positive roles might the microbes play?

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Viruses are parasites that serve little to no purpose in the ecosystem . However, some virus such as bacteriophages do help by killing bacteria and is used to treat superbugs that have grown resistant to antibiotic
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